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PLANNING (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 28

28.(1) Paragraphs (2) to (6) shall have effect where by virtue of Article 25
or 26, a planning permission is subject to a condition that the development to
which the permission relates must be begun before the expiration of a
particular period and that development has been begun within that period but
the period has elapsed without the development having been completed.

(2) If the Ministry is of the opinion that the development will not be
completed within a reasonable period, it may make an order (in this Article
referred to as a "completion order") whereby the planning permission will
cease to have effect at the expiration of a further period specified in the
order, being a period of not less than twelve months after the order takes
effect.

(3) Before making a completion order, the Ministry shall serve notice of its
intention to make the order on the owner and occupier of the land affected and
on any other person who in its opinion would be affected by the order; and if
within such period as may be specified in that behalf in the notice (not being
less than twenty-eight days from the date of service thereof) any person on
whom the notice is served so desires, the Ministry shall afford to him an
opportunity of appearing before and being heard by the planning appeals
commission.

(4) Where a completion order is made, the planning permission therein referred
to shall at the expiration of the period specified in the order be invalid
except so far as it authorises any development carried out thereunder up to
the end of that period.

(5) Where the Ministry makes an order under this Article it shall serve a
notice on any person mentioned in paragraph (3) stating the general effect of
the order.

(6) The Ministry may withdraw a completion order at any time before the
expiration of the period specified therein as the period at the expiration of
which the planning permission is to cease to have effect; and if it does so it
shall forthwith give notice of the withdrawal to every person who was served
with notice of the making of the order.

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